Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
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There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.Francis Bacon
Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things,
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Science is but an image of the truth.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him 'Was your mother never at Rome' He answered 'No Sir but my father was.'
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